Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, and they are seeking a Project Manager for their Devices business. This role involves coordinating and completing complex customer-facing projects, managing the delivery of Ubuntu images across various devices, and serving as the primary liaison between engineering teams and customers.
Responsibilities
- Managing projects through their complete life cycle and ensuring that the overall goals for both Canonical and the client are met
- Successfully delivering engineering professional services for assigned projects
- Working with engineering teams on custom board enablement and delivery of Ubuntu images to the customers
- Assisting in the development of project statements of work
- Drafting and maintaining project-specific schedules/project plans
- Obtaining client agreement to the project schedule and agreed-upon work items
- Ensuring projects are delivered within the time/resources/scope expectations
- Managing project risk mitigation and plans
- Driving technical issues to reach desired delivery outcomes
- Maintain daily and weekly communication with the client and all internal stakeholders
- Managing delivery schedule of critical third-party deliverables for the project
- Keeping management informed of the status of assigned projects
- Identifying custom engineering requests that are not part of an existing business contract
- Advocating the appropriate technologies from Canonical's product portfolio to customers
- Supporting different time zones and work non-traditional hours as required to support the assigned projects
Skills
- Solid project management experience in delivering engineering services to customers managing software development teams and field engineers
- Extensive experience successfully managing projects with cross-cultural and multi-continent internal and external project resources, preferably with resources in Asia, Europe, and the Americas
- Educational degree preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
- Good knowledge of Linux and the wider Open Source Software community, and understanding of computer architecture
- Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, in English
- Strong leader and problem solver with extensive experience building successful internal and external partnerships and effective working relationships with demanding project sponsors in complex organizational environments
- Ability to work non-standard work hours in support of a worldwide sales and project team
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- PMP/PMI or PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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